TEHRAN, May 04 (MNA) – Iranian documentary ‘Lotus’ by Mohammadreza Vatandoust has won Best Director Documentary award at the 18th Beirut International Film Festival in Lebanon.

In its 14th international screening, Iranian documentary ‘Lotus’ by Mohammadreza Vatandoust took part at the competition section of the 18th edition of Beirut international Film Festival in Lebanon and managed to win the festival’s Best Director Documentary award.

In April of 2010, after the construction of the Lafour dam, Lafourak and several other villages were flooded under 80 meters of water. ‘Lotus’ narrates the story of one old woman who has waited 12 years for permission to cross the lake to an island where the last resident of Lafourak waits for her.

The film has also won the ‘Artistic Vision Award’ at the 16th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in US, and received a number of nominations in other international film festivals.

The 18th Beirut International Film Festival took place from the 22nd to the 28th of April 2019.